We packed up our few remaining items, took out the garbage and got on the road at 6:25 AM. Zoe was not super happy to be woken up at 5:45 so she snoozed at bit in the car on the way up to Belmont, MA to pick up Ella. We greeted everyone, including the dogs, and got a quick lesson from Nick on the new (to us) smart phone that they arranged for us. (Thank you Laura and Nick!). I'm sure that if I forgot anything, Ella can give me a tutorial - kids are so tech savvy today! We hopped on I-90 and headed west. We listened to some of our first book on CD - Hachet - a story of a 13 year old boy who is lost in the Canadian wilderness. We then played the alphabet game and Zoe won. We stopped in New York for lunch and the girls watched a movie - Strange Magic, which Ella declared a little too dramatic. They are allowed to watch one movie a day on the way out and back to the West, but other than that, there are no electronics allowed on the trip with the computer being the exception so I can blog. As we passed the exit for Keuka Lake, we all waved and blew kisses to our friend Pat. We did the same at the Rochester exit in case she is visiting with her son Matt. We drove west to Buffalo - the girls wanted to detour to Niagara Falls, but that will have to be another trip - and then turned south. Just as we got to the airport exit, the phone we had been using as our GPS died. Apparently, the connection to the car had come loose and we hadn't noticed. We had drained the power down without realizing it and horrors, we didn't know which exit to take for our hotel for the night. I pulled to the side of the road and programmed the address into the old GPS and we were on our way again. Although we are going to be camping once we get out west, it is a royal pain to set up and take down the gear for just one night, hence the hotels until we get to South Dakota. The phone is now charging in the room while I am watching the girls in the pool. We had no use for the barf bucket today which with these two girls is a miracle so I would call our first day a rousing success! Having some trouble getting pix up so will publish this and try to add photos later.
The girls had a great time in the pool and hot tub and since there are no restaurants within walking distance we decided to order in for the evening. The girls have written in their journals and I read the first chapter of Caddie Woodlawn - our book for the trip. We will head to Chicago tomorrow morning.
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